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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional particulars from the Plymouth fight. (search)
prisoners and twenty cannon. Cairo, April 20 --Guerillas along the river declare that they will not allow Northern men to work on abandoned plantations. They recently made a raid on Tensas, La., capturing a large number of negroes and mules, killing Mr. Rollison and Mr. Matternalleth, after making them dig their own graves. Cincinnati, April 20 --A Cattleburg, Ky., despatch of the 19th, says, Capt. Patrick has arrived with one hundred prisoners, captured at Paintsville. Hodges's rebel brigade attacked our forces at Paintsville, Tuesday, but were repulsed. Col. Gillespie pursued and surprised them at Half Mountain, capturing 70 prisoners and property, together with a wagon train. The rebels were commanded by Cols Clay, Prentice and Maj. Johnson. Col. Clay was among the prisoners. Brig. Gen. Prince has been ordered to the command of the district of Cairo, Paducah and Columbus. New York, April 20. --Cotton firmer and higher. Gold, 1.67¾.
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional particulars from the Plymouth fight. (search)
How they fall! Poor old Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, who has stood before the world in his day as a gentleman, and one of the most distinguished lawyers of the old Union, has met the late of all of his class of men who attached themselves to the base and unscrupulous Administration of Abraham Lincoln. This faithless Marylander has seemed of late ambitions of becoming the especial defender of the Administration and the policy of the Federal Government. On the subject of the Abolitiobasest and most brutal of Northern subjugationists and rebel crushers, we see how low a man may fall when he loses his self-respect, and when integrity, honesty, and every public and private virtue is made to give way to a corrupt ambition. Reverdy Johnson is aspiring to something which he thinks he can only get through the agency of Black Republicanism. Yet not withstanding his abandonment of every duty to his countrymen and his State, he recently stood up in the Senate and discussed very co